Staff SW Test Engineer

Tink; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology firm in Singapore is looking for a Senior Software Developer in Test to join their Agile Product team. The role includes ensuring quality solutions, mentoring juniors, and strong expertise in API testing and CI/CD practices. Candidates should have 5+ years of experience and a background in FinTech. This hybrid position offers flexibility in office days.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in relevant work.
• Proven experience as a senior QA/SDET.
• Experience in FinTech, Payments, or Financial Services is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Join an Agile Product squad as an ambassador of quality.
• Ensure delivery of efficient, effective, scalable solutions.
• Coach and guide team on QA best practices.

Skills

API testing

CI/CD integration

Java

Ruby

Kubernetes

Cloud-native architecture

Excellent communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Docker

AWS

Job description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payment transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

About the role:

The Senior Software developer in Test (SDET) role is an ambassador of quality. You’ll be joining one of our Agile Product squads which consist of a Software Engineering Manager, Software Engineers and fellow SDETs, reporting into QA lead. You will play a key role in ensuring the team delivers efficient, effective and scalable solutions for a wide range of problems. You will design, develop, build and maintain QA solutions and processes. You will also coach and guide all in the team on QA best practices.

We are looking for someone:

• Has strong experience of API testing and/or contract testing
• Has strong experience integrating testing at various levels into CI/CD pipelines
• Has played a major role in the delivery of high quality solutions (ideally in a micro services environment) across large cloud-native architectures
• Has played a major role in designing, developing and evolving the test architecture of large scale, highly available cloud solutions
• Has driven positive change towards Continuous testing, DevOps and Agile
• Has an understanding of Cloud-Native architectures and practices. To name some: high-availability, high-scalability, microservices, 12-factor apps, CI/CD, heavy testing automation and observability
• Has worked as senior QA/SDET in the past, who leads discussions around technical direction and test architecture design decision, as well as mentoring junior SDET members of the team
• Ideally from a background in FinTech, Payments or Financial Services

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong coding and scripting ability in Java and/or Ruby
• API testing experience, including RestAssured API testing for automation and validation of REST services.
• Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka, RabbitMQ, and mocking tools such as WireMock.
• Excellent communication skills: written & verbal
• The ability to technically analyse a problem and a solution and recognise the right level of detail and abstraction to lead discussions with different stakeholders
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and always curious about the way things work
• A sound understanding of agile methods of software delivery and the principles and practices of BDD, ATDD and TDD
• The ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders in order to determine appropriate acceptance criteria for both business and technical needs
• Ability to make tactical as well as strategic decisions and recommendations based on incomplete or ambiguous information
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Strong knowledge of Docker and AWS (public cloud)

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.